Note 063
From Chapter 56 of the Decline & Fall

Ipse armatae militiae non plusquam MCCC milites secum habuisse, ab eis qui eidem negotio interfuerunt attestatur (Malaterra, l. iii. c. 24, p. 583).

These are the same whom the Apulian (l. iv. p. 273) styles the

equestris gens ducis, equites de gente ducis.
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